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Thomas M. Barret, At the Edge of Empire: The Terek Cossacks and the North Caucasus Frontier, 1700-1860, Boulder: Westview, 1999

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Robert D. Kaplan, Eastward to Tartary. Travels in the Balkans, The Middle East, and the Caucasus. Random House, 2000.

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Edward W. Walker, “No Peace, No War in the Caucasus: Secessionist Conflicts in Chechnya, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh,” in Gary Bertsch, Cassady Craft, Scott Jones, and Michael Beck, eds., Crossroads and Conflict: Security and Foreign Policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia, Routledge: 2000. A longer version was published under the same title as an Occasional Paper, Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, February 1998.